Major News
Outlets:
Google News
EbscoHost
Through the Lancer Library
password & username: lancers
Christian
Science Monitor
New York Times
Washington Post
LA Times
State and Local
VC Star
Sacramento Bee
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Understanding the
important events
taking place in our nation is a critical part of understanding our
national and local government, therefore you will be required to keep
pace with current events as a part of this course. This means
that roughly every two to three weeks you will:
- keep an eye on the major news outlets and track three
important national stories, you will need to print out one article for
each of the stories you follow, for a total of three
articles (remember: go to the "printer-friendly" version of the
article, then copy and paste the text into a Word Document)
- Make sure that your stories are closely related to the
topics we are currently studying (e.g. your first set of articles
needed to relate to the Legislative Branch). While your stories
are all about the same major topic (i.e. the Legislative Branch) they
should each be about a
different subtopic. For example: one article can be about the President
and a Supreme Court nomination, the next article can be about the
President and his economic plans, and the third article can be about
the President and drug enforcement policy.
- Please choose articles that are in-depth, not just a
summary of
the story from a wire service like AP or MarketWatch. The links
on the left will help you find quality articles
- Please make sure you are choosing stories that have real
national news significance, NOT Jamie Lynn Speers, or some
random guy driving like a maniac, or whatever
Bring the printouts of your
articles to class, where we will complete the following assignment:
- write a 2-3 paragraph summary for each of the news
stories in which you:
- identify the important actors and issues at stake
- give a brief chronology of events connected to the
story, and
- offer your opinion on the best possible resolution to
the issue
- The summary needs to be written in your own words, you
will receive a zero on this assignment if you copy and paste sentences
from the article.
- Current events are due at the start of the class
period. If you are not here the day they are due you need to
e-mail them to me or send them in with a friend. You will not
receive full credit if they are not here on time!
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